While credit cards remain the dominant way to pay online in the U.S., some merchants are beginning to give their customers the option to pay in installments and/or offer credit. And, according to new research, these retailers are on the right track. Three-quarters of consumers polled in a recent study said they would be more likely to choose an online retailer that offered an instant credit option than one that didn’t, according to a Researchscape International study conducted for Swedish online payment provider Klarna. Klarna, which made a name for itself in Europe by enabling online transactions using only a postal code or email address for authentication, recently has launched an instant credit product for e-commerce merchants.
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Jeffrey Henning
Jeffrey Henning, IPC is a professionally certified researcher and has personally conducted over 1,400 survey research projects. Jeffrey is a member of the Insights Association and the American Association of Public Opinion Researchers. In 2012, he was the inaugural winner of the MRA’s Impact award, which “recognizes an industry professional, team or organization that has demonstrated tremendous vision, leadership, and innovation, within the past year, that has led to advances in the marketing research profession.” In 2022, the Insights Association named him an IPC Laureate. Before founding Researchscape in 2012, Jeffrey co-founded Perseus Development Corporation in 1993, which introduced the first web-survey software, and Vovici in 2006, which pioneered the enterprise-feedback management category. A 35-year veteran of the research industry, he began his career as an industry analyst for an Inc. 500 research firm.
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